March is here and with this feared month, the beloved autumn. And although we are still in this pandemic, there are things we can do, such as look at the sky and enjoy all the astronomical events of the month, among which the full moon, the equinox and the conjunction of planets stand out.
March is considered the season of the Milky Way, because its brightest part begins to show after four months, so it is the perfect time to look up. The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud can also be seen with the naked eye.
On March 18 will arrive the worm full mooncommonly called like this thanks to the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, where the original peoples baptized it for the thawing of the earth and the arrival of the worms.
This month we will also live the equinox on march 20. From 12:32 in the afternoon we will already be in autumn. The day and the night will last the same. Something very different from what will happen at the North Pole, where a day will begin that will last 6 months, while the South Pole will be the night that lasts that amount of time.
That day we will also have Venus at maximum elongation east, where it will be the third brightest object in the sky, after the sun and the moon. The best time to look up at the sky is just before sunrise.
This month we will have six planetary conjunctions different. The first corresponds to Venus with Mars, on March 12. The second corresponds to the Moon and Mars, on March 28. The third corresponds to the Moon and Venus on March 28. The fourth corresponds to the Moon and Saturn also on March 28. The fifth corresponds to Venus and Saturn, on March 29. And sixth and last corresponds to the Moon and Jupiter on March 30.
- March 2: New Moon
- March 18: Full Moon
- March 20: Autumn Equinox
- March 20: Venus at greatest western elongation